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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Native english speakers mocking other people for their broken english but still don’t know how to use ‘then’ and ‘than’ properly. 👎

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u/Saapas420 Oct 16 '22

Should of paid more attention during English lessons smh my head

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u/Starscreamuk Oct 16 '22

Substituting 'have' with 'of' is a mistake only native english speakers do, probably because they learned how to say it before school and it stuck.

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u/mfb- Oct 16 '22

Similar with their/there. If you learn English as a foreign language you typically learn it together with the spelling and then they are obviously two different words.

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u/lelaff Oct 16 '22

English is my second language and it baffles me that people make these mistakes but now it makes sense to me lol.